Date: Tue, 15 Oct 1996 00:15:37 -0400 (EDT)
From: louisgodena-AT-ids.net (Louis R Godena)
Subject: Re: The Retreat of the Intellectual



A good example of the evolution from revolution to post-modernism is Jorge
Castenada's *Utopia Unarmed:  Latin American Intellectuals and the Left*
(1994),  which provides,  in unedifying detail,  the history of the "long
march" of this strata squarely into the camp of neo-liberalism.

And speaking of long marches,  one might also look at RW Johnson's *The Long
March of the French Left* (1981) for an account of the European variant of
this phenomena.    Both books detail the fulfillment of the reformist (and
not the revolutionary) yearnings of the 1960s and 70s and the changing
balance of forces that led so many Marxist intellectuals to change sides
without so much as firing a shot.

And thirty years ago,  E.H. Carr detailed an early but umistakable trend
among British and American intellectuals in "Turning to the Right" in the
*Times Literary Supplement*.

Louis Godena